a shared storysubmitted by Grace362 weeks 1 day 2 hours 4 minutes agoLess than a week after losing in the latest U.S. spectrum auction, Google Inc. has started pitching its plan to use TV "white space" — unlicensed and unused airwaves — to provide wireless Internet.
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission released by Google on Monday,...(more)

a shared storysubmitted by pbl333 weeks 2 days 7 hours 19 minutes agoWHEN the e-commerce giant eBay emerged from the last recession seven years ago with an aura of invincibility, its chief executive, Meg Whitman, boasted that “eBay is to some extent recession-proof.”
As the online auctioneer’s revenues and stock price kept climbing, one of its primary rivals, Amazon.com,...(more)

a shared storysubmitted by Lisa368 weeks 2 days 23 hours 21 minutes agoYahoo board of directors decided at a meeting Friday to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for the company, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to the Mercury News.
The decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was reached because the board believes the $31 per...(more)

a shared storysubmitted by AB410 weeks 6 days 1 hour 49 minutes agoAP - A human rights group sued Yahoo Inc. Wednesday on grounds the U.S. search company assisted China's communist government with torture by revealing information that led to the arrest of dissidents.

an original storywritten by Robert Cauthorn for team CityTools info394 weeks 6 days 1 hour 26 minutes agoFolks, we're still assembling documentation on how the multiple languages work -- and yes, we're aware that some translations need work and we are working on it.
In any event, here is a quick version of how to use CityTools in multiple languages.
If you're not a...(more)

a shared storysubmitted by Micca343 weeks 5 days 6 hours 51 minutes agohe Zimbabwean government this week responded to the hyperinflation crippling the country’s economy by knocking 10 zeros of the value of currency.
From Friday notes with a face value of Z$100 billion will be worth Z$10, the equivalent of 50p.
But the inflated notes, which will be legal...(more)

a shared storysubmitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge!312 weeks 4 days 17 hours 6 minutes agoThe online forum and classified site Craigslist is once again under fire from law enforcement for running advertisements for erotic services.

a shared storysubmitted by Grace374 weeks 3 days 55 minutes agoSecurity researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year.
Earlier this week, the worm - actually a batch of malicious software code - started generating Christmas-related e-mail spam....(more)

a shared storysubmitted by Ari347 weeks 3 days 2 hours 54 minutes agoFour years ago, Geri Rebstock started using Yelp, a popular site for consumers to review local businesses and services. She critiqued her favorite veterinarian, a neighborhood print shop and an acupuncturist who took care of her bad wrist.
But Rebstock's reviews and personal account vanished from the...(more)

a shared storysubmitted by Robert Cauthorn369 weeks 4 days 7 hours 33 minutes agoAFP - Microsoft Friday unveiled a hostile bid of 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut.

a shared storysubmitted by Robert Cauthorn366 weeks 17 hours 41 minutes agoPakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing "blasphemous" content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said Sunday.